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It's #bad that Silent Circle is shutting its secure e-mail service. It's good for their customers that they're not offering a false sense of security, and good for Silent Circle that they're now unlikely to be served with National Security Letters. But mostly it's #bad. !surveillance
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♻ @csoghoian FBI in '10: Firms "can promise strong encryption. They just need to figure out how they can provide us plain text." http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/us/27wiretap.html?pagewanted=all
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♻ @RachelBLevinson Sen. Hart, 1968: "Notice of surveillance is a constitutional requirement of any surveillance statute." (h/t to @declanm)
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Oh, is that ever a fantastic quote: "They can promise strong encryption. They just need to figure out how [to circumvent it]."
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Don't tell her that it's possible to apply your own #encryption another layer up, *on top* of the service. Or that it's possible to send encrypted data even over an analog line—just like the cable-TV companies do.
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I don't want to go back to the 1990s when #encryption algorithms were `arms', possessing them made you a bad-guy, and getting your math peer-reviewed beyond US borders made you a felon.
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I don't want to have to revisit #DJB vs. #USA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States
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I don't want to go back to the days when the US was the least secure place in the world: http://status.hackerposse.com/url/3800